Social Justice Training Within Geropsychology: Nontraditional Pedagogies to Cultivate a Competent Workforce
This article describes four nontraditional pedagogies that help prepare students to work with older adults: (a) service-learning (SL) involving undergraduates who provide community service to seniors; (b) an active learning strategy utilizing a narrative therapy technique, in a multicultural training setting with master’s students; (c) a brief, case-based, interprofessional training experience for doctoral students; and (d) a hierarchical supervision model with doctoral and master’s students in a community outreach wellness program. The relevance to social justice training within the counseling psychology profe...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zucchero, R. A., Iwasaki, M., Lewis, M. M., Lee, J.-y., Robbins, M. J. Tags: Non-Traditional Teaching Special Issue Source Type: research
Integrating Service Learning and Difficult Dialogues Pedagogy to Advance Social Justice Training
The integration of service learning and difficult dialogues pedagogy is one avenue for enhancing counseling psychology social justice training. We provide an illustration of this integrative model including advocacy and systems perspectives, and propose that the model can be applied to other service learning foci within counseling psychology training. The article presents an ongoing project that provides counseling graduate students the opportunity to implement skills in career and employment counseling with homeless and near homeless individuals, as well as to develop greater cultural sensitivity and humility. The model p...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Toporek, R. L., Worthington, R. L. Tags: Non-Traditional Teaching Special Issue Source Type: research
Structural Competency as a Framework for Training in Counseling Psychology
The purpose of this article is to explore structural competency as a framework for training in counseling psychology. Structural competency as a guiding paradigm can be an important component of counseling practice that is informed by an understanding of the effects of oppression and structural-level disparities on the psychological well-being of marginalized groups and individuals. We outline a set of training principles that can inform the development of socially responsive curricula in counseling psychology programs. These principles are derived from the need for an emancipatory, liberatory stance among newly trained pr...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ali, A., Sichel, C. E. Tags: Non-Traditional Teaching Special Issue Source Type: research
Non-Traditional Teaching Methods That Promote Social Justice: Introduction to the Special Issue
This brief article serves as an introduction to the special issue of The Counseling Psychologist devoted to non-traditional teaching methods that promote social justice. We introduce the historical importance of social justice in the field of counseling psychology and discuss current events that maintain the need for further work in this area. We introduce the need for a focus on pedagogy that promotes social justice. We briefly summarize the manuscripts in the two special issue volumes and discuss the broad categories into which they fall. Finally, we call for further scholarship and action related to innovative teaching ...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Koch, J. M., Juntunen, C. L. Tags: Non-Traditional Teaching Special Issue Source Type: research
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Source: The Counseling Psychologist - September 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Culturally Tailored Smoking Cessation for Adult American Indian Smokers: A Clinical Trial
This collaborative, community-engaged project developed and tested a Culturally Tailored Treatment (CTT) for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) smokers in the Menominee tribal community. One hundred three adult AI/AN smokers were randomized to receive either Standard Treatment (ST; n = 53) or CTT (n = 50) for smoking cessation. Both treatment conditions included 12 weeks of varenicline and four individual counseling sessions but differed in terms of cultural tailoring of the counseling. The primary outcome was 7-day, biochemically confirmed point-prevalence abstinence (PPA) at the 6-month end-of-study visit. Both intent...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Smith, S. S., Rouse, L. M., Caskey, M., Fossum, J., Strickland, R., Culhane, J. K., Waukau, J. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Disordered Eating Among Asian/Asian American Women: Racial and Cultural Factors as Correlates
This study of Asian/Asian American women (N = 587) investigated the roles of perceived racial discrimination, ethnic identity, and racial/ethnic teasing in relation to self-esteem, internalization of Western standards of beauty, and body dissatisfaction as predictors of disordered eating in a structural model. Results indicated that, when controlling for body mass, perceived racial discrimination, ethnic identity, and racial/ethnic teasing significantly predicted disordered eating and its correlate variables through direct and indirect links. The findings suggest racial and cultural factors may complement sociocultural mod...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cheng, H.-L. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Insight Skills: Integrating the Results of Three Studies
We compare the results of a series of studies (Chui et al., Jackson et al., and Spangler et al.) investigating the effects of training undergraduate students in helping skills courses to use insight skills (immediacy, challenges, interpretation) after they had learned exploration skills. A comparison of students and instructors indicated similarity across the samples. Increases in self-efficacy for the target skill were found across all studies. In addition, all components (reading, lecture, video modeling, practice, and feedback) were found to be effective, but students found practice and lecture to be particularly effect...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hill, C. E., Spangler, P. T., Jackson, J. L., Chui, H. Tags: Major Contribution Source Type: research
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Interpretation
After they had learned exploration skills, 128 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of interpretation. After training, students had higher self-efficacy for using interpretation and were rated by both themselves and volunteer clients as using interpretation more often. Students in a delay condition did not change over a comparable period of time in which they received no training in interpretation. Self-efficacy for interpretation increased after lecture/discussion, a fishbowl exercise in the lecture class, small group practice in the lab, and dyad practice in the lab. In post-training...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jackson, J. L., Hill, C. E., Spangler, P. T., Ericson, S. K., Merson, E. S., Liu, J., Wydra, M., Reen, G. Tags: Major Contribution Source Type: research
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Challenges
After they learned exploration skills, 103 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use challenges. Prior to training, students’ self-efficacy for using challenges did not change, although the quality of written challenges and reflections of feelings did. After training, students rated themselves as having more self-efficacy for using challenges and were judged as providing better written challenges, although there were no further changes in quality of written reflections of feelings. Students maintained self-efficacy for using challenges at a 5-week follow-up. Self-efficacy for using challenges increased...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chui, H., Hill, C. E., Ain, S., Ericson, S. K., Ganginis Del Pino, H. V., Hummel, A. M., Merson, E. S., Spangler, P. T. Tags: Major Contribution Source Type: research
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Immediacy
After they had learned exploration skills, 132 undergraduate helping skills students were taught to use the insight skill of immediacy. After training, students increased in self-efficacy for using immediacy, and catharsis and cohesion increased among lab group members. Students who completed training first (nondelay) had higher self-efficacy post-training than those in a delay condition before they had training. Self-efficacy for immediacy increased after lecture, modeling, and large-group discussion; decreased between lecture and lab; and increased after lab practice. Qualitative results indicated that practice was the m...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Spangler, P. T., Hill, C. E., Dunn, M. G., Hummel, A. M., Walden, T. T., Liu, J., Jackson, J. L., Ganginis Del Pino, H. V., Salahuddin, N. M. Tags: Major Contribution Source Type: research
Training Undergraduate Students to Use Insight Skills: Overview of the Rationale, Methods, and Analyses for Three Studies
We briefly review the literature on helping skills training. We then provide a rationale for the current series of studies, given methodological problems and a lack of focus on teaching insight skills in the previous literature. Next, we provide an overview of the rationale, methods, and analyses used in common across three studies conducted to teach insight skills (immediacy, challenges, and interpretation, respectively) to undergraduate students in helping skills courses. (Source: The Counseling Psychologist)
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hill, C. E., Spangler, P. T., Chui, H., Jackson, J. L. Tags: Major Contribution Source Type: research
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Source: The Counseling Psychologist - August 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Mental Health Implications in Mormon Women's Experiences With Same-Sex Attraction: A Qualitative Study
Given research suggesting that individuals in conservative religions experience conflict between religious beliefs and feelings of same-sex sexuality, this study explores the mental health impact of Mormon women who experience same-sex sexuality. Twenty-three Mormon women participated in semi-structured individual interviews about their experiences with same-sex sexuality. Interview questions asked about participants’ experiences with same-sex sexuality and the LDS Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), how this experience affected their mental health, and what types of mental health treatment they...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - May 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jacobsen, J., Wright, R. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
Arrantly Absent: Atheism in Psychological Science From 2001 to 2012
This study provides a content analysis of the past 12 years (2001-2012) of academic scholarship about atheism and atheist individuals from a social scientific lens in the United States. The content analysis yielded 100 articles across disciplines including psychology, sociology, religious studies, and political science. Although the number of articles about atheism published since 2001 has increased steadily per year (n = 0 in 2001 compared with n = 20 in 2012), the topics discussed in the atheism literature were narrow in scope and involved (a) comparing religious/spiritual (R/S) belief systems to atheism or (b) discussin...
Source: The Counseling Psychologist - May 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brewster, M. E., Robinson, M. A., Sandil, R., Esposito, J., Geiger, E. Tags: Regular Manuscripts Source Type: research
